My Cup Of Tea - MCOT
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‘My Cup Of Tea’ - social & action grp 4 professionals & former professionals with severe mental illness (SMI) - with accompaniment @BiscuitTaking
For anyone with a mental health illness who did not understand how the disabled benefits slash particularly discriminates against them, even severe mental illness, this is why and how: #DisabilityBenefits #MentalHealth #LabourAreDangerous
One-in-eight disabled employees leave work each year... ...and this has been rising over time ⤵️
🫵 We need you. The fight for a wealth tax is heating up. 🔥 📨 Join our mailing list today to hear from @faizashaheen, @JacobLAtkinson & the rest of our team on how you can help us turn pressure into policy. taxjustice.uk/join-the-tax-j…
Ministers keep trying to wriggle out of the 'fluctuating conditons' question because folk aren't asking quite specifically enough. Please, please always mention the Severe Condition Criteria cos it is this that 8 out of 9 new claimants are discriminated against cos fluctuating.
Millionaires are staying where they are, despite over 18000 news pieces published around the world since the start of 2024 claiming otherwise. taxjustice.net/2025/07/24/the…
Disabled people in financial crisis has DOUBLED since 2022–23. This research was DELAYED until AFTER the vote it seems. • 52% can’t afford support • 61% can’t heat their homes • 64% can’t access essential care • 18% have had to use food banks Evil.tinyurl.com/3ufxtff6
"Tax rises probably are inevitable [but…] the chancellor doesn’t need to raise taxes on working people.” Our very own Joe Wright, discusses Rachel Reeves choices on @LBCNews with @VanessaBaffoe.
"We don’t tax the wealth of the very richest – not because we can’t, but because we’ve chosen not to build the systems to do it." Great article. Well worth a read👇
"The UK has the tools to tax extreme wealth, what’s missing is political leadership to use them." NEF's Fernanda Balata explains how the government could already use the tax system to help fix our broken economy neweconomics.org/2025/07/you-ca…
🚨BREAKING🚨 29 MPs have just tabled an EDM titled "proposal for a #WealthTax." edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…
Does anti lifeline slashes to health benefits campaign, have a PR manager or co-ord? @PollardTom @johnpringdns @Shrink_at_Large @RITB_ @LurgeeLife @RichardBurgon @TaxJusticeUK @natalieben PR= public relations. Public=voters. HoC cares about votes. Influence public=influence Hoc
I received hundreds of emails from those affected or fearing #UniversalCredit cuts, collective testament to the fact that disabled people are not feeling, as Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted, "secure and supported", but the opposite nataliebennett.org/latest/my-regr…
🚨New @NEF research out today on benefits conditionality: 🫵strict & prescriptive conditionality is pushing people into poor quality work or away from support altogether 📋the public is open to a more flexible & supportive approach that prioritises engagement Find out more👇🧵